Judith Oberman and family - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Judith Oberman and family

Yehudit and Morris Oberman were known as fervent Zionists who
dedicated their life to working on behalf of Israel.Yehudit Oberman
née Braslavsky (1901-2000), came from a very unusual family. The
father, mother, and five children emigrated from Ukraine to the
Holy Land in 1905, when Yehudit was four years old. The family
settled first in Ramla, a then-Arab village halfway between Jaffa
and Jerusalem, where the father ran an inn for about two years,
before moving the family to Jaffa.Yehudit later married Morris
Oberman and came to Montreal. Her sister Miriam went to Paris,
while the three remaining siblings stayed in Israel for the
rest of their lives. One of Yehudit's brothers was Yosef Braslavi
(1896-1972), the pioneer geographer of the Land of Israel who wrote
the first guidebook to the country after walking its length and
breadth. His six-volume work, Hayadata et Ha'aretz? (translation:
"Do you know the country?"), is still in print today. Her other
brother, Moshe (1902-1961), was also a writer who wrote extensively
on the labour movement in Israel.

The Oberman collection contains diaries written by Judith
Oberman, detailing her Zionist involvement and concerns in Canada,
as well as more than 500 letters written in Hebrew by Yosef
Braslavi to his sister, spanning 50 years and covering all the main
events of world and Jewish history of the time.